About BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service
North American financial services provider offering equity and debt
underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and
acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management,
market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales
and trading. BMO Capital Markets is a part of BMO Financial Group
(NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services
providers in North America.

About BMO Financial Group

Established
in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly
diversified North American financial services organization. BMO
Financial Group provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth
management and investment banking products and solutions. BMO Financial
Group serves clients across Canada through its Canadian retail arm, BMO
Bank of Montreal, and through its wealth management firms BMO Nesbitt
Burns, BMO InvestorLine and BMO Harris Private Banking. BMO Capital
Markets, our North American investment and corporate banking division,
provides a full suite of financial products and services to our North
American and international clients. In the United States, BMO also
serves clients through Chicago-based Harris, an integrated financial
services organization that provides more than one million personal and
business clients with banking, lending, investing, financial planning,
trust administration, portfolio management, family office and wealth
transfer services.